{"id":10771,"date":"2025-11-12T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10771"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:57:02","slug":"whooping-cough-cases-skyrocket-in-texas-quadrupling-last-years-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/12\/whooping-cough-cases-skyrocket-in-texas-quadrupling-last-years-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Whooping cough cases skyrocket in Texas, quadrupling last year&#8217;s numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/whooping-cough-cases-skyrocket-texas-quadrupling-years-numbers\/story?id=127435069\">ABC News<\/a> Texas is currently seeing four times the number of whooping cough cases compared to the same time last year, the state\u2019s health department said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dshs.texas.gov%2Fnews-alerts%2Fhealth-alert-increase-pertussis-cases-texas&amp;data=05%7C02%7CLeah.Sarnoff%40abc.com%7C9f182cb0f8b843c4569208de21955dcd%7C56b731a8a2ac4c32bf6b616810e913c6%7C1%7C0%7C638985122704947095%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Lt%2BrlpbqBwdy9Rh4jL1nY0Q5ezTLgwmaQwotZGDJPgo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"health alert, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health alert<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state has reported more than 3,500 cases this year. This is the second year that Texas has experienced high increases in whooping cough cases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nationally, whooping cough cases have been higher in the past two years than levels seen in prior years and pre-pandemic. In 2024, the United States experienced roughly six times as many cases compared to 2023,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstacks.cdc.gov%2Fview%2Fcdc%2F175161&amp;data=05%7C02%7CLeah.Sarnoff%40abc.com%7C9f182cb0f8b843c4569208de21955dcd%7C56b731a8a2ac4c32bf6b616810e913c6%7C1%7C0%7C638985122704972544%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ONq9Rs7bhNnKvnqJDmWZWThUGs0ZOM4K62kHWQvN81s%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"CDC data shows, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CDC data shows<\/a>. Cases remain elevated this year but appear to have been trending down since a peak seen last winter, the CDC says.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News Texas is currently seeing four times the number of whooping cough cases compared to the same time last year, the state\u2019s health department said in a&nbsp;health alert. The state has reported more than 3,500 cases this year. This is the second year that Texas has experienced high increases in whooping cough cases.&nbsp; Nationally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10772,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10771\/revisions\/10772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}